Wout van Aert outduels Tadej Pogacar to win his first Paris-Roubaix title
The Guardian
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Belgian ends decade-old run of bad luck in event
‘It’s everything to me … I stopped believing a lot of times’
Wout van Aert shattered a decade-old jinx to win Paris-Roubaix on Sunday, outduelling the world champion, Tadej Pogacar, in a brutal classic race across the cobbles.
The 31-year-old suffered a puncture as did Pogacar and their great rival Mathieu van der Poel, who had two mechanicals and could not contest the final sprint, which went in Van Aert’s favour for his second title in one of the five Monument classics after his Milan-Sanremo victory in 2020.
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